Bomb Magazine
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World Scheduled to End This Weekend
And it’s funny—people bring up the fact that Black Wave starts out as memoir and turns into fiction, but… isn’t that what fiction is? Over at BOMB, Sara Jaffe sat down with Michelle Tea, author of Black Wave, to talk…
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The Other John Reed
Writer John Reed is a genre buster. His new book, Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems, is a collection of sonnets about love scenarios mostly gone amok, which he began sharing on Facebook some time back. Gee Henry interviews…
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Talk Literary to Me
The artist statement is not just a representation of what you are working on, but an intervention in what you are working on. If you start saying, I aim to do this and not to do this, maybe it keeps…
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Two Mexicans in Paris
I say without irony that Laia and I observe each other with a kind of “epistemological distance.” We follow and keep each other company with a precise balance of mutual admiration and respect, and a capacity for honest, sharp criticism.…
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An Interview Goes Both Ways
An unorthodox conversation, or experimental, two-way interview between Jesse Ball and Catherine Lacey at BOMB yields miscommunication, communication, repetition, randomness, push, pull, aphorism, and wisdom. On reading contemporary literature, Ball says: There’s something pernicious about work that is from your specific…
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Frederick Tuten Remembers Jenny Diski
Writer Frederick Tuten recalls the first fan letter he ever wrote to novelist Jenny Diski. What followed was a friendship which lasted until her death last month from cancer. Back in 1999, Tuten interviewed Diski for BOMB Magazine: Do you know what…
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Writing about Humans
I don’t trust any writer who takes himself seriously. It’s all kind of ridiculous. Our job is to write about humans, and humans are funny. Over at BOMB Magazine, J.T. Price talks with Rebecca Makkai about her first collection of short stories,…
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The Awesome and Baffling Immateriality of Time
Over at BOMB Magazine, the brilliant Laura van den Berg has an illuminating conversation with the talented Stephanie Barber, artist-in-residence in the MFA program at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Stephanie says: Time — and how to organize it,…
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The Highest Bidder
Valeria Luiselli previews The Story of My Teeth for BOMB Magazine; among the dentures being optioned are G.K. Chesterton’s, Virginia Woolf’s, Charles Lamb’s, Rousseau’s, and the fangs of Mr. Montaigne.
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Didn’t Know a Thing
BOMB Magazine continues its Oral History project: a collection of oral biographies about New York City’s African-American artists. This week, Alteronce Gumby’s subject is Stanley Whitley: Stanley told me once, “There are many art histories … and many art worlds.” The more I…
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Our Own Private Lives
Daniel Alarcón interviews Alejandro Zambra for BOMB Magazine; among other things, they touch on William Carlos Williams, Chile, bonsai trees, dictators, and beautiful notebooks.
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Cecil and His Women
Over at BOMB Magazine, César Aime treats us all to new fiction (translated by Chris Andrews).